Home again, home again!

After leaving Winthrop we head over the Cascade Pass.  Beautiful country, winding road.

And then we’re back!  Used our Nexus so the wait at the border was minimal.  Dinner out in White Rock before going home.  A great short holiday.

Second day of road trip

We enjoy a leisurely morning and then leave Oak Harbor heading south our destination being Langley.

Langley is a lovely town on the south of Whidbey Island.  Lovely shops to look in and places to stroll.

Starting to look a bit like fall.

The Inn at Langley.  Very nice place with an award winning spa.  Unfortunately we didn’t try it out!

I don’t see any fire trucks!  We then leave Langley taking a small ferry over to the mainland where we continue on to our next stop. We arrive at Leavenworth next but it’s very busy and some smoke has moved in from a forest fire so we continue on.  Unfortunately we spent too much time on Whidbey Island and didn’t allow enough time to properly see Wenatchee or Chelan.  Chelan has a beautiful lake but we couldn’t get accommodation there so we drive to Pateros where we stay at Howard’s on the River.

This is the view we wake up to!  We have a private balcony and we enjoyed our coffee there. Was lovely.  

Now we’re off to Twisp.

Twisp is a small town with a definite western theme.  Much like Winthrop however Twisp has….

The famous cinnamon twists!  So yummy.  Then we’re on to Winthrop.

The original stage coach stop.

The wooden boardwalks make it so authentic.

This would make a unique gift!

And then we head back home over the Cascade Pass.

Road trip to the Cascade Loop

Sue and I headed off to the States on Friday of the Labour Day weekend. Destination: Cascade Loop

 First heading down to Fairhaven for a look around and then down Chuckanut Drive.

In Fairhaven we stop for coffee and a pastry.  Sue was busy conversing with Mark Twain outside the book store.

This is a lovely square where they show films to the public.  It’s surrounded with great shops, restaurants and coffee bars.  Lots of history and we enjoyed looking in the shops.

We then drove down Chuckanut Drive to LaConnor.  Beautiful drive.  Great shops in LaConnor.  Great art pieces.

We had lunch and then carried on to…

Deception Pass.

And then we continue over to Whidbey Island to Oak Harbor for our first night at the Coachman Inn.

For dinner we drive about 15 minutes south to Coupeville which is lovely and right on the water.  It’s really small and we have an hours wait for dinner but worth it.  I had lovely mussels which are harvested right in Coupeville.  While waiting for dinner we had a drink at the place next door, sitting outside enjoying good conversation with a couple from Coupeville.

Now you can tell we are in the United States.  I don’t think you’d find a sign like this is in a family restaurant in Canada! 😳. Back to Oak Harbor for the night.

Biking in Delta and day trip across the line

Bev and I went biking in South Delta.  I picked her up at the Tsawwassen ferry terminal and we went to Pedego Bike Rentals down by Centennial Beach.  Bev rented an E bike for the day and I had mine.  

Great bike.  Fit Bev well and she really enjoyed it.

We stopped by the Barnside Brewing Co. for a cold drink and then on to Ladner for lunch on the River.  Beautiful day.  We rode for five hours.  It was perfect.

Diane, Sue and I drove down to Blaine to catch the Plover to Semiahmoo Resort.

It’s a short 20 minute ride over to the resort where we had a lovely lunch.  Line ups at the border were bad.  Took us 1-1/2 hrs each way to get through as we couldn’t use our Nexus.

Beautiful day!